If you had told me last week that the Maserati Ghibli was getting its own Super Bowl ad, I would have told you were on drugs, and then I would have asked you for some of those drugs because they sound like fun and potent drugs.

Was not expecting that. That's a Maserati Ghibli on a Super Bowl ad. Chrysler made everyone…
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But Chrysler surprised the world with the ad for the Ghibli, which to that point was a relatively obscure car, even if it's a big deal for Maserati. There have been stranger cars to get their own TV commercials.

That's our question of the day: What's the most obscure car to ever get its own TV ad?

I nominate the Sterling, which was a rebadged Rover 800, which itself was basically an Acura Legend except made in England with questionable build quality. The idea for the Sterling itself was extremely strange; that it got its own TV ad is even stranger.

Your turn. What's a car you never expected to be on TV? It can be in the U.S. or some other market. Maybe there were Pontiac Fiero ads in Japan; I haven't gone looking for them.